Ruby Scheduling Systems

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W
1	system	rails instance per run	can run standalone from background job processor	easily invoke ruby code without clumsy prefix, quoting, etc.	jobs are defined as ruby code, not strings	jobs and schedules are defined in different places	schedule is defined in codebase	jobs run in rails executor	can run jobs in parallel	Easily provide an error handler	Easily run rake tasks within persistent rails instance	Easily run commandline processes	rails only	before and after callbacks	around callbacks	Job must be defined as an ActiveJob	job definitions in database	Web UI	updated	lines of code cloc --exclude-lang="Text,Markdown"	cost	notes	syntax supported [this column is incomplete]

2	ruby-clock	no	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	2022	153			cron, period, specific time
3	clockwork	no	yes	yes	no [sort of]	no [sort of]	yes	no	yes [not by default]	yes	no?	no?	no?	yes	no	no	yes	no	2021	1,706		• https://github.com/Rykian/clockwork/issues • https://github.com/Rykian/clockwork/pulls • Betterment fork: https://github.com/Betterment/clockwork	period, specific time
4	crono	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	no	no?	no?	yes	no	no	no	no	yes	2022	1,597		https://github.com/plashchynski/crono/issues
5	sidekiq-scheduler	no	no https://github.com/moove-it/sidekiq-scheduler/issues?q=independent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes		no?	no?	no	no	no	yes	no	yes	2022	3,147			cron, period, specific time
6	sidekiq-cron	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes		no?	no?	no	no	no	yes	no	yes	2022	2,576			cron
7	sidecloq	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes		no?	no?	no	no	no	yes	no	yes	2019	1,069
8	mini_scheduler	no	no	yes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	no?	no?	no?	no	no	yes	no	yes	2022	1,371
9	sidekiq enterprise	no	no	yes	yes	yes?	yes	yes	yes		no?	no?	no	no	no	yes	no	yes?	ongoing		$230/month	https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Ent-Periodic-Jobs also get other features of Sidekiq Pro+Enterprise https://sidekiq.org
10	GoodJob cron	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes?	no?	no	yes	no (can define for ActiveJob, but can't define only for cron jobs)	no (can define for ActiveJob, but can't define only for cron jobs)	yes	no	yes	ongoing			GoodJob is an awesome background job processor, this matrix is only comparing its cron capabilities. GoodJob and ruby-clock are a great pair, and also Ben is awesome!	uses fugit, so probably supports everything
11	heroku scheduler	yes [but each job gets its own instance, so it's a different resource problem]	yes	no	no	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no?	no?	no	no	no	no	yes [functionally]	no	ongoing
12	*nix cron	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	yes	yes	no	no?	no?	no	no	no	no	no	no	ongoing
13	whenever	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no?	no?	no	no	no	no	no	no	2020
14	perfectsched	yes?	yes?	no							no?	no?				no		no	2018	2,252		claims "one-at-least-once" behavior but doesn't really describe the criteria/thresholds (if a 1pm job is missed because of a restart and server comes back at 1:02, does something special happen?)
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